Rain protector



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PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. YENN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAIN PROTECTOR,

Application filed October 13, 1924. Serial No. 743,216.

This invention relates to paper rain proteetors.

It frequently happens that persons are caught in a rainstorm without coat, umbrella or other means of protection against the weather. To buy a coat or umbrella for the trip home is too expensive tobe practicable.

It is an object, therefore, of the present invention to provide an efiicient rain protector sufficiently cheap to enable it to be purchased for a single trip and then be thrown away.

A further object of the invention 1s to provide a weather protector capable of folding up into such small compass that 1t may be carried in the pocket.

Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the accompanying drawings and the following specification.

The invention (in preferred forms) is illustrated on the drawings and hereinafter more fully described.

On the drawings Figure 1 shows a man wearing a rain protector constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side view of the protector folded flat.

Figure 3 is a view illustrating the method of making the protector.

Figure 1 is a detail view showing the loops for the insertion of the arms.

Figure 5 shows a man wearing a modified form of rain protector.

Figure 6 is a side view of such modified form of protector folded fiat.

Figure 7 is a section on the line 77 of Figure 2 or 6.

Figure 8 is a view showing the protector folded fiat ready for sale or for insertion into a pocket. I

As shown on the drawings The protector comprises two portions 10 of suitable thin inexpensive material, preferably waxed, oiled or otherwise water proo-fed paper united along their vertical edges 11, conveniently by employing a sheet of twice the width of the portions 10 and folding longitudinally.

The next step is to cut the sheet 10 along the lines 12. Then the parts 15 of the paper on the upper side of the lines 12 are folded -ure 5.

back about the lines 13. Similarly the parts 16 of the paper on the lower sides of the lines 12 are folded inwardly and downwardly about the lines 14.

The upper margins of the sheets, both folded and unfolded parts are then secured together in any suitable way, such as sewing, gluing with waterproof cement or the like. Preferably the adjacent edges are folded over, as shown in Figure 7, in addition to sewing or gluing.

The edges of the downwardly folded portions are then secured to the body of the same sheet of which they form a part.

I It will be seen that the parts 15 serve to reinforce the hood portion of the rain protector while the parts 16 form loops through which the hands may be passed so that the free vertical edges 17 of the sheets 10 may be held in overlapping relation around the body of the wearer.

The modified form of protector shown in Figures 5 and 6 is constructed similarly to that shown in Figures 1 to 4 except that the hood portion is partially separated from the body portion by a slit 18 to allow the hood portion to be folded outwardly and downwardly 'over the back as shown in Figure 5.

The protector folding perfectly flat may readily be folded into small compass as shown in Figure 8 for insertion into an envelope, pocket etc.

When it is desired to use the same itis unfolded, the head is inserted into the hood portion and the hands passed through the loops formed by the parts 16. In the case of the modified form of construction instead of inserting the head in the hood the latter may be folded backward so that it hangs down the back as indicated in Fig- If desired the protector may be contructed for the head only so that ladies may be able to protect their hats from the rain.

I am aware that many changes may be made, and numerous details of construction may be varied through a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted hereon, otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

A paper rain protector consisting prinits corresponding portion to form loops adcipally of two portions of paper connected jacent the free vertical edges to enable the along one pair of Vertical edges and along latter to be held in overlapping relation w a part of their upper margins from said veraround the body of the wearer.

' tical edges outwardly, another part of the In testimony whereof I have hereunto upper margin of each portion being folded subscribed my name.

downwardly and inwardly and attached to GEORGE E. YENN. 

